My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

The spirit of seeking understanding through personal contact with people of other nations and other cultures deserves the respect and support of all.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

There is no undertaking more challenging, no responsibility more awesome, than that of being a mother.

It was a full Spears album, apparently, and each song was as ridiculous as the one before. They were catchy, yes, but so was the plague.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

If I have more than one life, I would definitely dedicate this one entirely to you.

I think my wife has always been aware, whatever country we have been in, of my dramatic leading man status; a little too dramatic she would probably say.

I look at a woman and I don't see what's wrong with her. I see what's right.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.